We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history.

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It's always hard to keep toddlers from bumping their heads! Today we often baby-proof corners, but in the early modern era it was more common to put a padded "pudding cap" or "falling hat" on the child. 🗃️🪡 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

‘Transgender’ people have been with us for over 100 years, and what we would recognise as trans identities are found in our archives - in the UK alone - reaching as far back as the medieval era.

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Okay, I just looked at the website. There's no HUMANITIES represented! We, too, contribute to knowledge production. Where do the histories of fascism come from? Where the analyses of how rhetoric & disinformation work? Ignoring the Humanities' contributions to truth-making is what got us into this.

a friend sent me this one

My new beetroot earrings have brightened up my day ☀️

Some lovely blossoms on my walk today 🌸
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Yet more reasons young people need to understand how history works. How it is controlled and how it is silenced. History and the past are not the same and if we don’t reinforce this at every step in schools we are sleepwalking into dystopia

One of the things I wanted to achieve with BBC You're Dead To Me was to change the public perception of 'typical historians', to show that expertise isn't just a man in a tweed jacket and bow tie

Made in Manchester: Mary Fildes was president of the Manchester Female Reform Society and played a leading role in the 1819 reform rally that ended in the Peterloo massacre, where she was beaten and cut. 1/6

Free Spring School from our Art Museum and Gallery Studies MA on 31st March. Book here:
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